"Colored Schools": Eighth Street Colored School

Other Name: Dunbar School, Ormsby Avenue Colored School

Last Address: Eighth and Kentucky streets

Year Opened: 1897

Year Closed: 1910

Ormsby Avenue Colored School was renamed Eighth Street Colored School in 1897.  Its previous address was Seventh and Ormsby.  The school was called an "open air school."